Dropbox might have just scored a major win against Google-- at least as far as personnel goes. The cloud storage provider just hired Guido Van Rossum, creator of the Python programming language.

Guido van Rossum, the creator of the hugely popular Python programming language, is leaving cloud file storage firm Dropbox and heading into retirement. That ends his six and half years with the ...

Dropbox will cease development on Pyston, but the source code will be available for those who want to continue hacking on JIT-powered Python Pyston, Dropbox’s project to create a faster Python runtime ...

Dropbox is looking to strengthen and scale their storage service, and it just announced moments ago that it hired one of the senior executives within Google: Guido Van Rossum. For those not familiar ...

After months of silence, the Pyston project — a Dropbox-sponsored initiative to create a high-performance, JIT-compiling Python runtime — has announced a new version. The bad news: Pyston 0.5 is ...

The original open source software “Benevolent Dictator For Life” and author of Python, Guido van Rossum, is leaving Google to join Dropbox, the startup will announce later today. Van Rossum was a ...

How to write four million lines of Python: Lessons from Dropbox on using the programming language at scale Your email has been sent While Python is a hugely popular programming language it has ...

After gaining a master's degree in mathematics and computer science from the University of Amsterdam, Van Rossum worked for the Netherlands Institute and then at the National Institute of Standards ...